LeCun: Most of Meta's AI capex is for inference infrastructure
Yann LeCun · Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS · May 30, 2025 · at 1:39
Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explains the breakdown of Meta's massive infrastructure and compute spending.
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“Most of the investment, at least for, from the meta side is investment in infrastructure for inference.”
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